Recently, we heard about Google's stock price hitting the $700 mark for the first time in five years, and we also heard about Apple's stock hitting $700 for the first time ever. Now, Google's stock has hit a new all-time high price. It seems that Google's financial outlook hasn't been affected by Apple's recent newsmaking with the iPhone 5.

During today's trading, Google's share prices hit a high of $748.90, just barely topping the record of $747.24 per share, which was set back in November, and closed the day at the new high mark for Google's history at $749.38. On the other side, Apple's stock topped $700 both on the day of iOS 6's release, fell back down, then jumped over $700 again on Friday for the iPhone 5 release. But, Apple's stock dropped all the way back to $688 to start this week, only rebounding slightly to end the day at $690.79. Maybe all of the bad press about iOS Maps is taking its toll on Apple.

Of course, stock prices aside, Apple is still killing it with an overall market cap of $647.55B, whereas Google is at just $245.07B. This is because Apple is maintaining its crazy high stock price with 937.41 million shares in the market, while Google has just 327.03 million shares issued.

Both companies are still the top two tech companies as far as per share price, but they have a long way to go to catch the most expensive stock in the world: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. which closed to day at $133,034.00 after dropping $1550 on the day. Even more obscene than that bit of info is that Berkshire Hathaway traded at an all-time high of $149,972.28 back in 2007, and at that time Warren Buffet owned almost 500,000 shares of the company. That's almost $50 billion for those of you reaching for your calculators.

1) no, they will fall down because they do not give money for development, just for lawyers
2) iPhone is high just because of loyal MAC users = they started this great mistake, this influx of the iPhone popularity, not because of revolution

so they are going to start ending when iPeople find out that iOS is really an inferior product and Apple is completely ill and r*tten company:
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Your comment made me realize that I hadn't mentioned the market cap for each company, which certainly adds perspective when you consider that Apple is trading at almost $700 per share and it has almost 3 times as many shares issued than Google. That's a crazy demand on top of a huge supply.

Michael this article is missing a lot of things like the users are saying here and there. Stock rise and fall all the time. Apple stock fell a little but that is typical for any company after a big release.

You didn't mention how Apple is the most valuable company in existence or how much cash it has, far more than the US.

You are absolutely delusional if you think Apple is the most valuable company in existence. Companies like BP, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell easily trump Apple's yearly fiscal earnings. In fact, in the 2011 fiscal year Apple Inc ranked 43rd ($108.249 billion) globally in earnings. They are definitely not as mighty as you think they are. Wal-Mart, Toyota, General Motors, Samsung, and At&t all earn more annually than Apple.

Yes, you are, read the second paragraph of the very article you posted, "Apple’s achievement does not take into account inflation, however, and Microsoft was considerably more valuable on an inflation-adjusted basis in December 1999. In inflation-adjusted dollars, Microsoft’s market-cap reached a high of around $850 billion."
Did you just read the headline and stop there?

Yes you are. The stock market has nothing to do with real world value. These are projections made by so-called "expert analysts" that have no experience in the industry the analyze. I can tell you from personal experience from running a million dollar business, when the company I worked for decided to change from the prior year's up against numbers to projections based on market trends, every store started tanking and managers started losing money.

These analysts that have over inflated Apple's worth will be the ones responsible for their bubble burst. Keep in mind how little market share they really have in the computer world. Everything they are banking on is in their iProducts, and those are losing market share rapidly to Android. Look away from the stock market and look at real world worth. Apple is an ok company from a profit standpoint, nothing spectacular. As that profit margin keeps slipping investors will keep selling, causing that bubble to burst and you'll see how far the mighty can fall.

You got a warning for saying that someone would have to be "suicidal and sadistic" to consider Apple stock, and because when you couple that with your comment about the iPhone 5 being a "flop", that crosses the line from critique to inciting.

You had a valid comment, but it was the throwing flames that earned you a warning.

Yeah but the buying of that stock might have changed history. Maybe apple would have thought "hey, people are buying our stock, I guess we're doing better than we thought", or, perhaps such purchase would have caused the company to be devalued further, or, the attempted sale of them now would cause a devaluation. Butterfly Effect.

I believe Google, Microsoft, Intel, ARM, Nvidia, and AMD combined are worth less than Apple. That's huge. I'd argue that it's a reflection on how overvalued Apple is. I'm not an expert in finance, but we're looking at the #1 desktop and mobile OS, #1 and 2 search engines, a top gaming system, basically every consumer processor, and so on.
Apple has $100 billion in cash, but their other assets probably aren't worth Google, Microsoft, ARM, AMD, and Nvidia combined,

"Of course, stock prices aside, Apple is still killing it with an overall market cap of $647.55B, whereas Google is at just $245.07B. This is because Apple is maintaining its crazy high stock price with 937.41 million shares in the market, while Google has just 327.03 million shares issued. "

Stock market prices rise and fall. Yes Apple is a valuable company but something could happen a week from now that could cut their stock price in half. Oil companies make up six of the top ten most valuable companies this year, any one of those could slip up to #1 next year.

Apple is going to slow down/stabilize for the next 3 months, jump during the holiday season, and then take a major tumble after imo. Apple isn't capturing enough new customers; just pre-existing iPhone users. The competition is stronger than ever for apple.

Apple will bounce back high with the release of iPad mini. Though for 7 incher tablet i would prefer the Nexus 7 if I am a braindead person, because Android is far easier to pirate than iOS. But if you know all the ins and outs of jailbreaking, Apple's App Store has far better and numerous useful and appealing apps you can take advantage of. Not to mention if iPad mini's screen would be as great as the new iPad, there would be no competition at all. But looking at Apple strategy, they might offer the retina display for the iPad mini 2 instead. lol. Android's customization is great on monile phones but all androids customizations are for kids when it comes to tablets. Pretty useless.

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